Is there are exactly one partition, given length of partition and maximum number?

Python 2, 38 bytes

lambda n,k,m:m>n-k<2or-1<k*m-n<2+2/m*k

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Characterizes the cases where there's only one legal partition.

Consider the partitions of \$n\$ into exactly \$k\$ parts each between \$1\$ and \$m\$ inclusive. There's only two ways to for there to be only one such partition.

  • The number \$n\$ is close to as small as possible (\$n=k\$ or \$n=k+1)\$ or as large as possible (\$n=mk-1\$ or \$n=mk)\$ for such a partitions. This leave only enough "wiggle room" for only one partition in each case:
    • \$n=1+1+\cdots +1+1\$.
    • \$n=2+1+\cdots+1+1\$.
    • \$n=m+m+\cdots+m+(m-1)\$.
    • \$n=m+m+\cdots+m+m\$.
  • We allow only \$m=2\$ maximum, forcing a unique partition made of 1's and 2's. Such a partition requires \$k \leq n \leq 2k\$.

The challenge lets us assume that \$n>k\$, so we can omit the \$n=k\$ case and \$k \leq n\$ check, and, as feersum observed, can let us check \$n=k+1\$ as \$n<k+2\$. The \$m=1\$ case makes it impossible to make a partition with \$n>k\$, so we make sure it's always rejected. This gives the condition

\$n \in \{ k+1, mk-1, mk\}\$and \$ m>1\$, or \$n \leq 2k \$ and \$m=2\$


Wolfram Language (Mathematica), 39 38 bytes

-1: first argument > other arguments (no length-1 partitions)

1==Tr[1^IntegerPartitions[#,{#2},#3]]&

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Jelly, (10?) 11 bytes

Œṗṁ«⁵ɗƑƇL⁼1

A full program which accepts N numberOfParts maximalSizeOfAnyPart as arguments and prints 1 if exactly one solution exists and 0 otherwise.

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How?

Œṗṁ«⁵ɗƑƇL⁼1 - Main Link: N, numberOfParts
Œṗ          - integer partitions (of N)
       Ƈ    - keep those (P) for which:
      Ƒ     -   is invariant under:
     ɗ      -     last three links as a dyad - i.e. f(P, numberOfParts):
  ṁ         -       mould (P) like (numberOfParts)
    ⁵       -       3rd argument (maximalSizeOfAnyPart)
   «        -       minimum (vectorises)
        L   - length
          1 - literal one
         ⁼  - equal?
            - implicit print

If we may print 1 if exactly one solution exists and 0 OR nothing otherwise then Œṗṁ«⁵ɗƑƇMỊ is a 10 byte full program.